Improvement in caps



HY. KU H LMAN.

Gaps.

Patented Aug.18,1874.

THE GR APNIG CO. PHOYO'LITNJQl-QJ PARK PMCLKX.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

i-TENRY KUHLMAN, on BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

- IMPROVEMENT m cAPs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154, 145, dated August 18, 1874 application filed July 15, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY KUHLMAN, of- Boston, of the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Gaps;

and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-- i Figure 1 denotes a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a front view, of one of my improved caps. Fig. 4 is a representation of the pattern for cutting the body of the cap.

Fig. 5 is a representation of such pattern water during stormy weather, not only is the water liable to run through the seam and down upon the face of the wearer, but it soon impairs the stitching, or causes it to rot more or less and readily give way. As the strain in pulling the cap on the head by the hand applied to the visor comes directly upon the stitching of such visor to the body of the cap, it will readily be seen how important it is to make the visor or its outer layer in one piece with the body of the cap, thereby avoiding the seam and stitching and the disadvantages and bad results incident thereto. Therefore, in making the cap-body or outercovering and layer thereof irrespective of the lining and the facings, and also the welts of the seams, I form the visor portion and the front or all the crown-quarters and their body-connection from a single piece of leather or material, which may also be in one piece with the turnup flank-pieces, all being as shown in Fig. 4,

in which A denotes the visor portion, and B B the turn-up flanking pieces or parts, and O O (l O the crown-quarters, all being in one piece with the body E. Thus there will be no seam between the visor part, the flankingpieces, and the body, to leak water or rip. The crown I form with four spherical or ellipsoidal, or approximately spherical or ellipsoidal, triangular projections or quarters, G G O G, they being bent down so as to bring the edges of each in contact or correct position with the next adjacent edges of the two next adjacent ones, the edges in apposition being subsequently stitched together with a well; between them. At the junction of the four scams or vertex of the crown I usually place and fix a button, D, to make a finish and cover the said junction.

It will be seen that when the visor part and the turn-up flank parts are in one piece with the body, or such and the crown-quarters, there is no danger of such visor or flank parts eitherbeing easily torn from thebody under ordinary .circumstances, or of leaking water at their junctions with the body part, and also that I save the expense of sewing them to the body part. 7 In making the cap, the flank-pieces are to have extension-pieces F F sewed to their inner edges, (see Fig. 5,) in order that such may be extended over and above the visor.

The cap shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 is represented with its turn-up flank-pieces covered with a lining of sheep-skin with the wool upon it, the visor being shown at A, the flankpieces at B B, the crown forming projections or quarters at G O O G, and the button at D.

Preparatory to lining the visor part I usually stretch it more or less lengthwise and widthwise, so as to cause it, when the cap is completed, to project at an angle to the body.

A distinctive feature in my cap is, that the visor is in one piece with the two body and crown pieces or projections next above it, and is without any seam through its middle or in continuation of their junction scam.

I claim- 1. In a cap, the outer covering, having its body, crown-quarters, and visor portion formed in one piece of material, in the manner substantially as described, so that there may be no seam between the visor and body portions.

2. In the outer covering of a cap, the visor, and the flanking portions, the body and crownquarters formed in one piece of material, as represented and described.

3. In the cap-covering, the combinationof the flank-extensions F F (applied to the flankp'ieoes B B) with the body, provided with the crown-quarters O G G G, and formed 'in one piece with the visor part A and the flank portions B B, all as set forth.

HENRY KUHLMAN.

' Witnesses: V V R. H. EDDY,- S. N, PIPER. 

